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ANTUNEZ, KARINA - University Of Montevideo | |
ANIDO, MATILDE - University Of Montevideo | |
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ZUNINO, PABLO - University Of Montevideo |
Submitted to: Veterinary Microbiology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Publication Acceptance Date: 11/1/2010 Publication Date: 12/10/2010 Citation: Antunez, K., Anido, M., Evans, J.D., Zunino, P. 2010. Secreted and immunogenic proteins produced by the honey bee bacterial pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae. Veterinary Microbiology. 141:385-389. Interpretive Summary: American foulbrood (AFB) remains an important and reportable brood disease of honey bees. Past work indicates that the bacterium causing AFB secretes proteins that then attack the bee gut. These proteins are poorly characterized, and we carried out these experiments to see which proteins are most important. Using data from the P. larvae genome project we were able to identify proteins that seem like good candidates to explain how this bacterium causes honey bee disease. The results from this work have bearing on bee immunity and the management and breeding steps bee breeders can use to reduce this and other bee diseases. Technical Abstract: American Foulbrood is a severe disease affecting larvae of honeybee Apis mellifera, causing significant decrease in the honeybee population, beekeeping industries and agricultural production. In spite of its importance, little is known about the virulence factors secreted by Paenibacillus larvae during larval infection. The aim of the present work was to perform a first approach to the identification and characterization of P. larvae secretome. P. larvae secreted proteins were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and identified by MALDI-TOF. Protein toxicity was evaluated using an experimental model based on feeding of A. mellifera larvae and immunogenicity was evaluated by Western blot, using an antiserum raised against cells and spores of P. larvae. Ten different proteins were identi.ed among P. larvae secreted proteins, including proteins involved in transcription, metabolism, translation, cell envelope, transport, protein folding, degradation of polysaccharides and motility. Although most of these proteins are cytosolic, many of them have been previously detected in the extracellular medium of different Bacillus spp. cultures and have been related to virulence. The secreted proteins resulted highly toxic and immunogenic when larvae were exposed using an experimental model. This is the first description of proteins secreted by the honeybee pathogen P. larvae. This information may be relevant for the elucidation of bacterial pathogenesis mechanisms. |


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Winning in daily fantasy isn't always about finding contrarian picks. Yes, you want to differentiate your lineup to increase your odds at winning in tournaments, but you can't ignore the studs that are still worth their high price tags. Here are the studs to consider for Week 10:
MATTHEW STAFFORD, QB, Detroit ($6,800 DraftKings/$8,200 FanDuel)
This isn't recency bias with Stafford coming off a big Week 9 performance. Stafford would have been a terrific play even without putting up 361 yards and two touchdowns on the Packers. The Browns are strong against the run and one of the weakest teams against the pass. Only Marcus Mariota failed to throw for a touchdown against the Browns, and six of the seven other opposing quarterbacks have two or more passing touchdowns. Marvin Jones has also picked up his play over the past few weeks, helping Stafford's numbers. The Lions running game has slowed of late setting up Stafford for a high-volume passing day and a high daily score.
BILAL POWELL, RB, New York Jets ($4,000/$6,000)
With Matt Forte likely out for Week 10 (make sure that he is), Powell becomes a must-own at these prices. When Matt Forte missed Week 4 against the Jaguars, Powell put up 163 rushing yards and a touchdown on 21 attempts. Powell has been hampered by splitting touches all year, but Forte's absence would set him up for 20-plus touches. The Buccaneers are in a freefall and are among the worst teams in the league at stopping the run. Alvin Kamara just put up 152 total yards and two touchdowns against them last week, and Adrian Peterson and LeSean McCoy both topped 20 points against the Bucs in Weeks 6-7. Powell could sleepwalk his way to 3x-plus value.
STERLING SHEPARD, WR, New York Giants ($5,500/$5,700)
While the 49ers are slightly better against the pass than the run, it's just relative, as they are beyond miserable against the run. They have allowed 11 double-digit scores on DraftKings with two topping 20 points and eight double-digit scores on FanDuel. Sterling Shepard is one of the two remaining quality weapons in the Giants passing game (Evan Engram the other) and the only one of the starting receivers that's on the field. Shepard saw nine targets last week, catching five for 70 yards and can easily reach and top that this week.
CAMERON BRATE, TE, Tampa Bay ($4,100/$5,700)
While we are preying on the Buccaneers defense for Powell, we're going to do the same with Brate on the other side. Nick O'Leary, a mediocre tight end, managed four catches for 51 yards against the Bills last week. In the four previous games, David Njoku, Rob Gronkowski, Anthony Fasano and Austin Hooper all scored … Gronkowski twice. Brate came up quiet last week, but that was against a much-improved Saints defense and within Jameis Winston playing hurt, then replaced by Ryan Fitzpatrick mid-game. With a week to prepare, Fitzpatrick will be more effective this week, and Brate had come into Week 9 with five straight games with at least four catches and 60 yards.
Often, you don't need to overthink things when it comes to defenses. The Steelers head to Indianapolis and the Colts are allowing the most FPPG to opposing defenses (9.3). The next closest team is the Texans at 8.1 FPPG. The Colts have already allowed 35 sacks and six DST touchdowns, both of which are league highs. Five defenses have hit double-digits against the Colts, and the Steelers boast the second strongest pass defense, only behind the Jaguars. With the Steelers also able to score plenty, they should push the Colts and Jacoby Brissett to be more aggressive, which will lead to more potential turnovers, sacks and fantasy points.

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text: Rick and Kelly Oliver of Cortez are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Danna Oliver, to Matt Ruggles, son of Marty and Connie Ruggles, of Cortez. The wedding will take place in a private family ceremony on Aug. 2, 2014. Matt is a lineman employed by Empire Electric and Danna is an RN employed by Pasco/SW Home Health. They plan to reside in Cortez.


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Note: On August 13, 2012, we added to this archive the personnel file of Bro. Tom Thing. See the entire Thing file as released, and selections from the file.
This page provides the entire archive – over 8,500 pages of priest files and other documents – obtained by survivors of sexual abuse committed by Franciscan priests and brothers, as stipulated in nonmonetary provisions of a May 25, 2006 settlement. This is by far the largest release of religious order documents in the history of the sexual abuse crisis.
Objections by the accused friars to release of their personnel and confidential files were rejected in a June 18, 2007 opinion by Judge Peter D. Lichtman, and he ruled on specific objections from the accused perpetrators and Franciscan officials in his April 2, 2009 order with detailed exhibits on the objections of the Franciscans, alleged perpetrators, and "bystanders," including Franciscan managers. His decisions were affirmed on September 10, 2010 by the California Court of Appeals, and on January 19, 2011, the California Supreme Court declined to review the appeals court decision, allowing the release of the documents to proceed.
Although the attempt to prevent the release of documents ultimately failed, the defendants did succeed in aggressively redacting the documents. The names of the provincial ministers and other managers on whose watch the abuse occurred have been redacted from the record. Moreover, redactions and claims of privilege have turned the priest files into a patchwork: complaints documented in the depositions of survivors are frequently not represented in the priest files as released. While names of managers have been redacted, their titles have not. We have compiled a staff list for the provincial office, schools, and houses that readers might find useful. See also our list of provincial ministers.
Despite these issues, the Franciscan Sex Abuse Archive is a major new source of information on the abuse of children by Franciscan priests and brothers, on the enabling of abuse by Franciscan provincial ministers and managers, and on the Franciscan culture within which the abuse of children has thrived for decades.
Below we provide: 1) the Archive of Franciscan Sex Abuse, with links to over 8,500 pages of priest files, depositions, and exhibits; and 2) Selected Documents.
NOTE: We are continuing to update the selected documents portion of this page. Refresh the page to be sure you are viewing the latest version. Please email us if you have redaction concerns or suggestions for the selected documents section.
The archive contains the files of nine priests and brothers: Cimmarrusti, Van Handel, Johnson, and Krumm; Cabot, Carriere, Connolly, McKeon, and Pacheco. Information about the first four priests was also contained in the depositions of survivors and managers. Those depositions and exhibits were bundled with the relevant priest file. In a final section, we provide links to all the depositions. They offer important information on the culture of St. Anthony's Seminary and the managerial practices of the Franciscans.
BishopAccountability.org obtained these files from Timothy Hale, Esq., who had redacted the files to comply with all agreements. We optimized the files using Adobe Acrobat to make them smaller and easier to download, and if the resulting file was still larger than 5 megabytes, we split it up, and offered it both as a single file and as a number of smaller files. These are still large files and will take time to download on some connections. We are adding server capacity to ensure good download performance. When the defendants requested that entire pages be redacted, and the court did not grant the request, Mr. Hale retained the blank Xed-out page, indicating that there had been a difference of opinion about the redaction. We deleted the blank page to make the documents more readable, but we provided a "With Blanks" version of the file, so that interested readers can see what redactions were not allowed by the court. Light shading in the documents indicates smaller redaction requests that were disallowed.
In order to provide context for the documents, we offer links to Mr. Hale's useful narrative history of abuse in Santa Barbara. We will also provide links to assignment histories and other biographical sources.
Fr. Mario Cimmarrusti OFM
• Deposition of Witness 6 (Cimmarrusti)
• Depositions of Cimmarrusti Survivors • Witness 3 and Exhibits • Witness 15 and Exhibits • Witness 17 • Witness 23
• Depositions of Colleagues with Particular Connections to Cimmarrusti • Witness 1 • Witness 2 and Exhibit • Witness 9 • Witness 10 (Harris): Vol. 1 and Exhibits; Vol. 2 and Exhibits • Witness 12 • Witness 16 and Exhibits • Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Cimmarrusti
Fr. Robert Van Handel OFM
• Depositions of Van Handel Survivors • Witness 8 •Witness 25 • Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Van Handel
• Van Handel's Sexual Autobiography
Bro. David Johnson OFM
• Deposition of Johnson Survivor •Witness 25 • Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Johnson
Fr. Gus Krumm OFM
• Deposition of Johnson Survivor • Witness 25
• Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Krumm
Bro. Samuel Cabot OFM
• Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Cabot
Fr. David Carriere OFM
Bro. Berard Connolly OFM
• Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Connolly
Fr. Martin McKeon OFM
• Priest Files • Personnel – OFM McKE 1 0001-0118 – With Blanks • Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: McKeon
Fr. Gary Pacheco OFM
• Priest Files • Personnel – OFM PACH 1 0001-0056 – With Blanks • Confidential [6.1M] – OFM PACH 1 0057-0362 – Split for Easier Download: 1 2 • Psychological – OFM PACH 1 0363-0388 • Laicization – OFM PACH 1 0389-0447 – With Blanks
Administrators and Colleagues
• Depositions Also Listed Above • Witness 1 • Witness 2 and Exhibit • Witness 9 • Witness 10 (Harris): Vol. 1 and Exhibits; Vol. 2 and Exhibits • Witness 12 • Witness 16 and Exhibits
• Other Depositions • Witness 4 • Witness 5 and Exhibits • Witness 7 (Cordano): Vol. 1 and Exhibits; Vol. 2 and Exhibits • Witness 11 • Witness 13 • Witness 14 and Exhibits • Witness 18 and Exhibits • Witness 19 • Witness 20 and Exhibits • Witness 21 (Sayovitz) • Witness 22 and Exhibits • Witness 24 and Exhibits
Bro. Tom Thing OFM
• Priest Files • Personnel [25.4M] – FRAF 00001-00509, and for easier download: • 1A: FRAF 00001-00128 [6.7M] • 1B: FRAF 00130-00151 [1.3M] • 2: FRAF 00152-00299 [5.6M] • 3: FRAF 00300-00412 [6.3M] • 4: FRAF 00413-00509 [5.5M] • Plaintiff's Application to Amend Complaint: Thing
• Coonce Complaint with Description of Alleged Abuse before Las Vegas • Coonce Settlement
• Mother's Letter about Cimmarrusti's Abuse of Her Son and Its Effects on the Family (11/27/92)
• Profile Prepared during the Board of Inquiry (8/21/93)
• Psychological Assessment of Cimmarrusti Commissioned by Franciscans (11/18/93) – medicine a "guise" for abuse, younger boys
• Sexual Deviancy Evaluation of Cimmarrusti (12/9/93) – 250 boys age 13-15
• Report to After-Care Program Director (3/18/2002) – Cimmarrusti admits to abusing minors in Mexico
• MacDonald Letter Describing Cimmarrusti at San Damiano Retreat Center (8/8/02) – capable of living within the guidelines?
• Follow-Up Letter by MacDonald (8/26/02) – to whom will Fr. Mario be responsible and accountable?
• Letter from West to Cimmarrusti (5/31/03) – restrictions at San Damiano
• Interim Guidelines Restricting Actions and Contacts, Signed by Krumm (12/10/02) – misplaced in Cimmarrusti file
Refresh your browser to view recent additions to this list.
• Assignment Record
• Negative Vote for Candidacy (5/78); see also all votes, including mention of immaturity
• Description of Alleged Abuse before Las Vegas, from the Coonce Complaint (3/14/11); see also the Coonce Settlement (6/12)
• Solemn Vow Evaluation Mentioning "Difficulties and Tensions" in Las Vegas (5/1/87)
• Letter from Thing to Provincial Saying That the Provincial Asked Thing to Leave Youth Ministry in Walnut Creek (1/17/89)
• Letter from Thing to Provincial on Provincial's "Well Founded Concerns" about Thing As Director of Youth Ministry in Utah (12/23/92)
• TARA Assessment of Thing after 1993 Allegation; Thing Refused Polygraph (5/24/93)
• Letter from Provincial Office to Thing on Settlement of "Unfair" Allegation (2/8/95)
• Partial Summary of Allegations (No Date)
• Report of Investigation of Sexual Misconduct with Young Friar, Including Thing's Admission of Wrongful Power Difference (12/6/00)
• Thing Assessed As Lying about Sexual Relationship with USD Student (2/5/01)
• Restrictions Recommended by Clinical Psychologist after Polygraph (2/23/01)
• Provincial Tells Psychologist That Thing Was"Crestfallen" to Be Ordered Out of USD in 60 Days (2/23/01)
• Letter from Province Official to Therapist Saying That if Thing Takes Leave, He Still Cannot Work As University Chaplain (4/1/01)
• McGovern Memo Again Recommending No University Position for Thing (5/9/02)
• West Memo about Thing's "Unethical and Immoral" USD Misconduct and Prohibited Ministry to Young Adults (3/13/03)
• West Email about a Mother Telling the Las Vegas Franciscans That Thing Had Molested Her 12-Year-Old Son (11/25/03)
• Letter Describing Thing's Request for Dispensation from Solemn Vows (4/2/04)
Van Handel
• Parents' Letter to Van Handel, Provincial, and Bishop Ziemann (4/23/92) – led to prosecution of Van Handel
• Parents' Letter to Cardinal Mahony (11/9/92)
• Van Handel's Sexual Autobiography (mid-1990s)
• Profile Prepared during the Board of Inquiry (8/19/93)
• Letter by Provincial Minister to Van Handel at Retreat Center on Board of Inquiry Report (11/21/93) – concealing the names
• Social Worker's Evaluation of Van Handel for Probation Officer (5/18/94) – the actual and potential damage I've caused to young men
• Letter by Provincial Minister to Van Handel in Prison on Abuse Cases, Insurance, Wolfe, and Krumm (12/12/94)
• Allegation Summary (No Date)


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One of my best friends just recently returned from a trip to New York City, and he explained to me that the highlight of his tenure there was going to see a Broadway showing of the Book of Mormon. This anecdote greatly perked my interest, because usually my friend is a rigid critic of most anything he encounters. I hadn't previously heard much about the musical besides the fact that its creator's, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were also the creators of the show South Park. So I decided that the next time I was in the Big Apple I'd have to definitely go see the performance.
After viewing the satire, I can safely say that the Book of Mormon is one of the most worthwhile experiences I've had in a long time! It was absolutely one of the most hilarious spectacles I have ever seen. The plot was surprisingly well constructed and it had me totally engaged the entire way through. The musical is a religious satire, so the pious might not be interested. However if you can accept the performance as a light-hearted comedic entertainment, then you should love the Book of Mormon.
The two lead actors were absolutely phenomenal, but truly the entire cast produced a flawless performance. You could really tell that everyone had their parts down impeccably.
My wife and I were positioned to the left side of the theatre, and for the most part we had an excellent view of everything. The theatre wasn't gigantic, so the intimate atmosphere made the performance that much more lively.
The musical itself describes the tale of two youthful missionaries during their mission to a village in Uganda. When they arrive, they are confronted with realities that they did not expect. The musical details what occurs when the two naïve missionaries encounter these 'realities'. While this might sound uncomedic, you wouldn't believe the hilarity that ensues!
I certainly recommend the Book of Mormon to anyone that is looking for a great round of laughs. The story, acting, and entertainment is definitely worthwhile!
The Book of Mormon will be playing at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles from Sept 5th – Nov 25th. We have The Book of Mormon Tickets for all dates of the run.


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Monday, June 22, 2009 11:31:09 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Watch for updates here as I report from Omaha this week. If you have any questions, or would like to see something featured, please shoot an e-mail over to me at email@example.com . And if you are attending this year's race make sure stop by in the pits and say hello. 🙂
Friday, June 26, 2009 1:32:58 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Controlled practice is officially in the books! Tomorrow's lap times count as we begin the 1st and 2nd rounds of qualifying.
Check out some of the photos and videos I just uploaded. I have an interview with 2 ROAR officials teching motors and tires, an interview with Jimmy Babcock who is calling the racing and broadcasting live with LiveRC.com, some on board SCT video, "turn marshal cam", and much, much more!
Friday, June 26, 2009 7:57:40 AM by BrandonWilcox
Sweet videos man wish I could be at the race, looks like a fun time. This race marks the first short course sanctioned racing and cant wait to see the results!
Friday, June 26, 2009 8:40:41 AM by Anonymous
onboard slash video is sweet
Friday, June 26, 2009 10:37:17 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Light rain coming down so ROAR is making the call to delay the qualfiers if needed. Hopefully we get more sunshine and back to 90 degree + weather again! 🙂
As we end the 1st round of qualifying today I'll post who is leading the 3 big classes: 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy, and 2WD Mod Truck.
Friday, June 26, 2009 2:21:48 PM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
We just completed round 1. We had a little bit of rain in the am but the weather looks good now. Ryan Maifield had some bad luck breaking in both 2WD Mod Buggy and Truck but I look for him to turn it around in the 2nd round.
Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:30:55 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Here are the top five for round 2 of 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy, and 2WD Mod Truck:
Modified Truck
1) Cavalieri, Ryan (12/6:06.898 R2)
2) Maifield, Ryan (12/6:08.678 R2)
3) Tebo, Jared (12/6:10.718 R2)
4) Evans, Dustin (12/6:10.875 R2)
5) Chambers, Matt (12/6:13.505 R2)
Modified Buggy
1) Tebo, Jared (12/6:08.242 R2)
2) Evans, Dustin (12/6:11.033 R2)
3) Cavalieri, Ryan (12/6:13.036 R2)
4) Maifield, Ryan (12/6:14.711 R2)
5) Brown, Scott (12/6:16.204 R2)
Modified 4wd
1) Tebo, Jared (13/6:19.651 R2)
2) Phend, Dakotah (13/6:23.555 R2)
3) Evans, Dustin (13/6:23.889 R2)
4) Tessmann, Ty (13/6:24.185 R2)
5) Hartson, Steven (13/6:24.733 R2)
Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:49:19 AM by Anonymous
great coverage i wish i was there with my t4
Saturday, June 27, 2009 12:43:19 PM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
The rain started to come down today about half way through round 3 so we are on a rain delay. With luck will be up and running pretty soon. 🙂
Saturday, June 27, 2009 11:53:21 PM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
All 4 qualifying rounds are now final. Here is your top 5 for 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy, and 2WD Mod Truck:
2WD Mod Buggy
1. Ryan Maifield
2. Jared Tebo
3. Ryan Cavalieri
4. Dustin Evans
5. Steven Hartson
2WD Mod Truck
1. Ryan Cavalieri
2. Dakota Phend
3. Jared Tebo
4. Ryan Maifield
5. Steven Hartson
4WD Mod Buggy
1. Jared Tebo
2. Ryan Cavalieri
3. Dustin Evans
4. Ty Tessman
5. Ryan Maifield
I got a chance to talk to all the TQ's for these 3 classes plus I'm uploading some pictures of new products and action shots as we speak.
Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:32:03 AM by John Bolten
Great pictures and vid's!! Wish I was there!
Monday, June 29, 2009 9:28:25 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Pictures of the top for the 3 big modified classes plus thew SCT demo class were uploaded last night. I also uploaded some interviews with the winners of those classes.
Keep checking back this week as I upload more pictures and videos from this year's event! 🙂
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:45:23 AM by Anonymous
Who won the stock and super stock classes
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:55:26 AM by Anonymous
Great coverage! It was also nice meeting you. I don't know how you have time to race and cover such a large race. My hats off to you. Oh and thanks for the pics of my SC10!
Mark Smith
Monday, July 06, 2009 10:01:20 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Here are the top 3 for the other classes:
2WD Stock Buggy
1 Jp Richards
2 Jayson Pang
3 Brent Calvert
2WD Super Stock Buggy
1 Jeremy Felles
2 Cody Jandrakovic
3 Cody Hollis
2WD Stock Truck
1 Brent Calvert
2 Jeff Crosson
3 Bill Koch
2WD Super Stock Truck
1 Doug Yunker
2 Cody Hollis
3 Chris Bennett
4WD Super Stock
1 JP Richards
2 Jayson Pang
3 Adrian Redding
Short Course Truck
1 Bill Koch
2 Matt Murphy
3 Gary O'brien
Monday, July 06, 2009 10:04:30 AM by Trevor "Chilly" Duncan
Nice to meet you too Mark. Wasn't all that bad except for I was late to tech a few times. 🙂


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The hunt for some form of life elsewhere in our universe may spur a veritable fleet of robot orbiters, landers and rovers to study the surface of Mars in the coming years. But they might look in the wrong place.
Instead of probing for signs of alien life on Mars' harsh surface, some researchers have suggested looking inside the planet, where there is mounting evidence of water ice near the equator and the potential for underground aquifers that could support basic, microbial organisms.
Spirit and Opportunity, the two robots currently exploring the Red Planet under NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, have proved that water shaped the development of rocks on the planet's surface. Meanwhile, Europe's Mars Express spacecraft, now orbiting the planet, is preparing to unfurl a radar instrument that researchers say might find pockets of liquid water in subsurface caves or voids.
"We now know that big areas on the planet were made of soluble rock," Steven Squyres, a Cornell University astronomer and the science team leader for NASA's Mars rover mission, said in an interview. "So if there's rock that can be dissolved by water, the idea of such a cave is perfectly sensible."
Recent reports by U.S. and European researchers have hinted at connections between the presence of methane and other gases in Mars' atmosphere and the possibility of water-harboring subsurface caves capable of sustaining life.
The theory is similar to actual conditions found in deep caverns on Earth, such as the Lechuguilla cave in New Mexico — the deepest found in the continental U.S. — where hardy bacteria thrive in a pool of water and feed off gases. Below the surface of Idaho, creatures dubbed methanogens give off methane as waste while subsisting on hydrogen from rocks around underground springs.
The meaning of methane
But whether some form of life once existed, or currently lives, in Martian caves is still unknown.
In March 2004, a trio of independent studies using Mars Express and ground telescopes announced the detection of methane in Mars' atmosphere. Months later, in September, the European Space Agency released Mars Express data detailing an overlap of methane and water vapor concentrations.
Researchers stressed that a skeptical eye is required after news reports stating that some scientists had linked the presence of Mars methane to the possibility that microbial life may generating the gas as a byproduct of subsisting off underground caches of water.
"The fact that you find methane does not mean you have to have life," Tobias Owen, a University of Hawaii astronomer who was part of a team that detected Mars methane with ground-based telescopes, told reporters at a recent science symposium. "You have to be very careful."
Owen said that methane can be generated through the interaction of rock and water, where living creatures are not a factor.
While Squyres said he had not seen the recent news reports about the implications for Martian life — and does not know of any direct proof that life ever existed on the planet — he did say that in general, caves are not a prerequisite for subsurface organisms.
Life gets by on much less, housing-wise.
On Earth, Squyres said, there are many instances of life thriving in pore space and fractures underground.
Looking deeper
The search for liquid water — which some researchers have considered a prerequisite for life as we know it — on Mars continues in May of this year when Mars Express is expected to deploy its MARSIS instrument, a radar tool designed to probe below the planet's surface.
From the surface, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers have not found any signs of caves during the exploration of their respective Mars landing sites, Squyres said.
"If there's a water table down there, you might — might — be able to detect it with ground-penetrating radar," said Squyres, who is also a co-investigator with the Mars Express mission in addition to his work with the Mars rovers.
MARSIS, short for Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding, is a 130-foot (40-meter) boom designed to send out low-frequency radio waves to probe for underground water. ESA researchers have said they hope the instrument can reach down to 3 miles (5 kilometers) below the Martian surface.
"Nobody's ever looked at Mars in this way before," Squyres said of the MARSIS plan. "Every time we look at Mars with some new technique something interesting tends to pop up, so I'm very excited to see what it's going to show."
Safeguarding Mars
One of the dangers facing any mission aimed at seeking out signs of past or present life on Mars is the potential of contaminating the Red Planet env—ironment simply by being there.
"If you're going to go to another world looking for life, you don't want to take anything with you," John Rummel, NASA's planetary protection officer, told Space.com.
Earlier this year during a science conference, Rummel discussed the challenges the science community may face in communicating the discovery of extraterrestrial life to the public, should researchers ever make such a historic find.
"We tend to be very careful and conservative," Rummel said. "Because you need to be sure of what you do know, what you don't know and what you can only guess at."
In 1996, NASA and Stanford University researchers published findings in the journal Science that a meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica — contained possible evidence of past life on Mars. The space agency was very careful to include a scientist at the press conference who aired concerns about how the meteorite data was interpreted, Rummel recalls.
"It's an art of managing uncertainty," Rummel said, adding that such processes are meant to keep NASA honest and accurate. "The public deserves an honest agency."


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Welcome to Kanpai Japanese Restaurant.
We are a family owned and operated restaurant that strives to serve the best
Japanese food in the Rosslyn Area. We bring in fresh fish daily for sushi and
sashimi and have an assortment of great cooked food for those who cannot eat
raw food. Come and sit at our sushi bar to see some of the most innovative
maki rolls. You might even get a complementary flaming scallop dish!
©KANPAI 2006 - Website by
We are proud to announce that Kanpai has received an "Editors' Pick" from The
Washington Post!
"Kanpai is named after the Japanese word for "Cheers!" -- an upbeat idea that suits
a lot of the food."
-Tom Sietsema (March 16, 2003, Washington Post).


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It can't be stressed enough how eCommerce sites should offer unique, useful content that is friendly to both humans and search engines. For the most part, excellently written content can help influence website visitors to complete a transaction. Plus, it also helps your website become relevant and competitive in the search engine pages for certain terms or keywords.
Because of these websites' complex structures and the intense competition against other online retailers offering the same products, optimizing your eCommerce content better for customers doesn't only entail fixing the body or the actual content that users can read. It also involves a lot of work in terms of structure, presentation, and keyword research. In the first place, it is the search engines that brings visitors to your site, so you have to work on making your site readable to machines as well.
Now, how can you ensure that your eCommerce site is filled with content that is helpful to both your customers and search engines?
Below are some proven ways on how you can use the precious real estate available for content on your website.
Match the users' search intent when targeting keywords
If you sell desk phones online, keywords like "office phone" or "business phones" may seem like excellent keywords to highlight in your content since a lot of people use these as search terms every month. But you can't easily tell the user's real intent there. Yes, searchers might be looking to buy phone units, but they can also be looking for simple information – maybe they're looking for a provider who can deliver business phone services, or maybe they just don't know how an office phone is supposed to look like.
Therefore, you need to target queries that are transactional. Go after keywords that explicitly fulfill the user's intent such as (still using the example above), "buy office phones." Adding terms like "buy," "shop," or "compare" to the important keywords for your business can lead you to more favorable results. And by doing so, you're only attracting the kind of visitors you really want – those who intend to make a purchase.
Create unique product descriptions
Search engines frown at product descriptions or specifications that are lifted directly from online brochures or manufacturer's websites. Relying on such text might pose a threat to your website since there's a probability that crawlers or algorithms will treat them as duplicate content, which runs you the risk of not being listed in the results pages at all.
But how about if you have thousands of different items to sell? There's no way to generate unique content for each product, for sure. It will probably even take you a year to finish writing descriptions for just one category.
Don't even think about lifting product descriptions from another site and don't spend a fortune on outsourcing content writers. Actually, you can start by selecting products you want prioritized and then creating unique copy around them. These may be category pages or specific product pages that are valuable to your business. These are the things that you want to focus on; you want them to be visible in the search results.
Meantime, you can tag the product pages that are not in your current list with the "noindex, nofollow" attribute. Then, when you find the time to create unique content for these pages, that's when you can gradually remove the tags on each page so that search engines may be able to crawl them, too.
Go beyond the usual product description
Supporting your existing content with creative, engaging content that may or may not be found within your website can give your brand some extra mileage. It will make your otherwise sales-y eCommerce site a more human touch. Consumers are said to demand a personal relationship from the brands they trust.
So how can you create content beyond your usual eCommerce pages? Consider the following:
- Create a blog, and fill it with content that site visitors will find useful
- Share news about the brands you carry
- Talk about upcoming products in your posts
- Include tips from industry experts or influencers
- Feature outstanding items or bestsellers from your product line
- Create how-tos, ideally in the form of videos, to teach buyers how to use your products
- Actively engage on social media for inquiries or concerns
- Gather testimonials, or conduct case studies to boost brand trust
Good engagement signals can help you increase your visibility online. If customers care about your online presence, then you can at least say there's a huge probability that you're just one step closer to completing that next transaction.
Creating successful eCommerce sites truly require a lot of time and effort. Sometimes, content creators – particularly the writers – unknowingly neglect the specifics in ensuring that web content is optimized.
While everything starts with creating great, compelling content and following best practices in website creation, it's also important for these sites to be readable to search engine bots, because they're usually what brings customers to your website.
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Brilliant, practical and real. Good common sense. The more unconditional positive regard we can muster the more we can implement these strategies and enjoy marriages that last a lifetime. Going on year 20 myself.
At the end of this month, my husband and I will celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary. Yes, 29 years. Holy bananas! How time flies!
Now, given the current divorce rate, 29 years is a pretty impressive milestone, but what makes it even more noteworthy is that we're not the perfect couple — not by a long shot. (See also: How to Be Happy and Married: 24 Tips from a 24-Year-Old Marriage)
Truth be told, he drives me crazy on most days, and judging from the pulsing vein in his forehead and his standing prescription to Xanax, I'd say he feels much the same way about me. And yet, here we are, totally content (for the most part) and excited about what the next 29 years will bring.
So, how did we do it?
My man is a big guy with a dominating personality. It's one of the things I love about him, but it's also a stark contrast to my more "accommodating" nature.
Consequently, I spent the first year of our marriage doing my best to keep him happy and avoid any arguments because, well, that's just what I do.
Until that is, my mother told me it was "okay" to disagree. "You're married now," she said, "but that doesn't mean you disappear. It doesn't mean you stop being you."
Of all the advice my mother has ever given me, that is by far the best.
All too often, we look to someone else to make us happy, believing that we have to trade our own sense of fulfillment for being in a relationship. We put our dreams on hold and take a big detour off our chosen path, expecting the relationship itself to be enough to sustain us.
And then, we're disappointed when it isn't.
The thing is, your partner never actually agreed to take responsibility for your happiness, or the lack thereof. They're not supposed to take charge of your journey — they're just supposed to be there to share it with you.
Fortunately, the fix is simple — don't disappear.
Both of you have to be your totally authentic and amazing selves.
While we're on the subject of authenticity, let's also talk about the importance of acceptance.
Many a relationship has ended due to "irreconcilable differences," and yet many of those differences are often some of the same traits and tendencies we possessed from day one. Granted, we do a decent job of hiding at least some of these traits at the beginning because we're on our best behavior and looking to impress.
It's only after we've got a commitment that we begin to let our guard down, and that's when the disillusionment typically begins.
Our entertainment adds to that illusion by showing us relationships that are steeped in an unrealistic amount of drama and excitement. We've been bombarded by worlds where true love is akin to magic, where the passion is overwhelming, where the participants always look beautiful, and where the lovers must overcome tremendous odds to win the freedom to finally be together. They'll succeed of course, because True Love always wins out.
Even though we know those worlds are fictional, we can't help but be moved by their passion and desire; we want that. And it influences our perception of what a relationship should be.
So, it's no wonder that we become disenchanted by the day-to-day grind of a real relationship. There are bills to pay, dishes to wash, carpets to vacuum, and toilets to scrub.
Your partner is consistently showing you who they really are (and vice versa), so stop being so surprised when those traits and tendencies continue into the relationship.
We have a bad habit of seeing people the way we want to see them rather than as what they're showing us. We see the diamond in the rough, full of promise and potential. They just need a good dose of our own special love and guidance to bring it all out.
And then we feel betrayed when they don't live up to our expectations.
You don't have to love everything about your partner, but you do have to love them for who they are right now — quirks, eccentricities, and all. If you can do that, you're already on the road to a long and happy relationship.
If my husband and I were to take a compatibility quiz, I can almost guarantee that we'd fail.
I love books; he prefers to wait for the movie. He sees life from a very organized, black and white perspective; while I'm a more creative, many shades of gray type of girl.
He's atheist; I'm pagan. He likes meat; I like tofu and sprouts. I wanted five kids when we got married; he was "iffy" about maybe having one. And the list goes on and on.
We are, for all intents and purposes, opposites of one another. We've obviously had to make some concessions and compromises along the way.
But what we realized is that very few issues required an all or nothing approach. We come together on the things that matter: we love our kids, we love each other, and we both believe that there's always room to grow and change.
And that's been enough of a foundation to make these last 29 years work. Yes, it's been quite a roller-coaster ride, but then who doesn't love the roller coaster?
Maybe that's a tip worth noting as well.
I have friends who, as soon as a new relationship looks like it might become serious, insist on having lengthy conversations about everything from the number of children they'll have to the amount of money they'll make, and they're willing to call it quits if the answers they get don't match up with their own.
But having such a rigid blueprint for the future leaves nothing to chance, and if there's one constant in this universe, it's that anything and everything could change from one minute to the next.
Our different personalities and perspectives might mean we have to work a little harder to find common ground, but it also makes that common ground much more exciting and enjoyable. It also almost guarantees that we'll never have to worry about getting stuck in a rut or becoming bored, two things that almost always lead to those irreconcilable differences.
During my stint in the corporate world, I noticed that the guys in the office were able to battle it out in a meeting and then go to lunch as if the altercation had never even happened. That's not to say that all men are masters of this skill or that they aren't capable of being mean and petty and vengeful when they want to be — they definitely are. But I saw this "fight-and-forget-it" mentality happen with enough consistency, that it prompted me to think about how I approached conflict in my own relationships.
Here's what I've learned.
First and foremost, it's okay to fight. In fact, it's absolutely expected if you want the relationship to last and the closer you are to someone, the more likely you are to disagree along the way.
You and your beloved are two unique individuals, sharing space, and making joint decisions that will have a lasting impact on both of your lives. Of course you're going to disagree, and sometimes, that disagreement will become heated. But with a few ground rules, your relationship can survive and even grow from the experience.
Ground Rule #1: Don't Take It Personally
Many disagreements are just that — a disagreement, as in "I think this while you think that." It doesn't mean your perspective isn't equally as valid — just that your partner doesn't share it. And sometimes that one little insight is the difference between a "discussion" and a knock-down, drag-out, you're-sleeping-on-the-couch fight.
Ground Rule #2: Stay on Point and Be Very Clear on What You're Fighting About
It's easy to bring up past infractions when it supports your position, but then don't be surprised when your partner becomes defensive. Ditto if you use the words "always" or "never" in your argument. Because now it's not just one issue you don't agree on — it's his or her character that's in question. And when one of you is defensive, you're no longer having a productive argument.
Ground Rule #3: Learn How to Walk Away
Fights are supposed to help you get things out in the open and (hopefully) shed some light on how to move forward. When things get too heated, our emotions kick in and we have a tendency to resort to some pretty nasty tactics. That's when you both should walk away. Go cool off, and come back when you're able to be more rational and reasonable. Your fights will be much more constructive.
You've probably heard the old adage "don't go to bed angry," and to that, I say "get real." If we fight in the morning and have all day to cool off, then we might be fine by the time we head off to bed.
But if the fight takes place in the evening or if he just really pushes my buttons, then I won't pretend I'm not mad just because we're going to bed, and neither does he. But what we will do is set aside our anger and let the other know we love them, even if we don't like them very much at the moment.
Which is enough to allow both of us to end the day. Sometimes, we're fine by the next morning, sometimes we're not, but we both know we'll eventually get back to where we need to be.
That's how we're able to say what we need to say when we're having a fight — we know we're going to make up. No grudges, no paybacks, no penalties of any kind. It makes it easier to fight and it makes it a lot easier to make up.
So that's what's helped make the first 29 years of my marriage a pretty solid success. I hope it brings you the peace and happiness that it's brought me.
How long have you been with the one you're with? What makes it work?
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Brilliant, practical and real. Good common sense. The more unconditional positive regard we can muster the more we can implement these strategies and enjoy marriages that last a lifetime. Going on year 20 myself.
Great article. My wife and I have been together for > 10 years. I think your first tip about being your own person and not getting lost with who you are is the most valuable one. Recognizing this has helped to keep us together more than anything else.


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Where I Am There Will My Servant Be: A Call to Treasure Christ Together
Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." 22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
In our little niche on planet earth, this is a historic weekend for Bethlehem. We are praying that at least 750 of those who regularly go to the downtown campus on Saturday or Sunday will start next weekend attending the South Campus at Burnsville, Senior High School at 9 or 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Bethlehem will move from being one church on two campuses, North and Downtown, to being one church on three campuses, North, Downtown, and South.
And history at the institutional level always has micro-historic implications for real people and families that, for them, can seem even bigger. For some, it will mean leaving a worship location where God has met them for ten or twenty or forty years. For many who go, and for many who stay, it will mean farewell to a weekend connectedness that has been very precious. For some staff, it will mean a major shift in focus: Rick Melson and David Livingston in particular will be focusing South. For all of those North who count Bethlehem Baptist Church your home, it will mean a fresh challenge to embrace the vision of Treasuring Christ Together.
Treasuring Christ Together
Treasuring Christ Together is what we call the strategy underneath the church mission. The mission of this church is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. And the overall strategy of the church to pursue that Goal is called Treasuring Christ Together (TCT). There are three prongs to the spreading strategy in TCT: (1) Multiplying Campuses, (2) Planting Churches, and (3) touching the poorest of the poor through the Global Diaconate—all defined doctrinally by the Bethlehem Baptist Church Elder Affirmation of Faith.
The campuses are all part of Bethlehem with a single vision, a single strategy, a single theological foundation, a single eldership, a single constitution, a single band of missionaries, and a single budget. The church plants are independent churches with no organizational tie to Bethlehem but the same theological foundation. And the Global Diaconate is a fund and a network of people in the church that aims to relieve the suffering of the poorest of the poor, especially eternal suffering.
So whenever we start a campus or a new church, or move toward global suffering, all of Bethlehem is involved. This historic weekend relates to all of us, not just those who will move South. My prayer is that every member of Bethlehem will understand and embrace the vision of Treasuring Christ Together. I pray that you will feel a part of something bigger than yourself and your family and your campus and your church. Treasuring Christ Together is an effort to be obedient to Jesus' command that we never become self-satisfied. That we never think we have arrived. That we never cease to spread the gospel of Christ and a passion for his supremacy. Till Jesus comes, we must never settle into our present situation as though the goal has been reached.
I pray that thousands of you will count it part of your holy ambition to pray and work and give with joy to make TCT an ever greater blessing in these cities. I pray that when you look at line two on your giving envelopes and see the words Treasuring Christ Together, you see lost people; and risk-taking evangelism; and authentic, God-centered worship; and growing disciples, young and old, single and married, men and women, urban and suburban, red and yellow, black and white; and you give with joy and sacrifice to a vision you embrace for the glory of the Savior you love.
You have given about $800,000 so far this year to TCT. That's twice what you gave at this time last year. Ten percent of every dollar has gone to church planting, and ten percent has gone to the Global Diaconate. Eighty percent has gone to pay for the purchase of the north campus and the varied start-up expenses of the south campus. We owe about $8 million dollars on the north campus. So I am praying for well over $2 million to come in this year for TCT. And, of course, I pray with you that the $7.4 million budget of the glorious steady-state ministry and missions of the church will amazingly come in by year's end.
Two questions remain for this message: why and how for TCT? Why this strategy and not another? And, How can it be sustained?
Why This Strategy?
Very briefly, and in bullet form, here is the answer to "Why this strategy and not another?"
1) Why not cease to grow and just work on the inner life of the church? Answer: Passion for the glory of God, love for perishing people, and obedience to Jesus make that no option.
2) Why not grow by only planting churches, not campuses? Answer: We are committed to planting churches, but we don't think we are able or called to steward growth by church planting alone.
3) Why not grow by building one large complex downtown or in the suburbs? Answer: There isn't room downtown for the complex and the parking, we are called to be in the city—not just in the suburbs—and we see great advantages to 2,000 person campuses over a 6,000 to 10,000 person gathering downtown.
4. Why not grow by multiplying campuses with multiple preachers instead of just one with a video? Answer: For now, at least, we believe that church-wide unity across campuses is served best by a unified teaching on the weekend. We think that different notes being struck week after week on the different campuses, no matter how good, would lead the campuses apart rather than holding them together.
There are dozens more things to say about how God has led us to embrace the strategy of Treasuring Christ Together, but let's move finally to the last question: How shall this vision and strategy be sustained?
How Can This Strategy Be Sustained?
Look with me at John 12:23-26 for the answer.
Each of these four verses has a destination or goal that is wonderful and happy. And each has a pathway toward that goal that is painful and involves self-denial and death to self. That doesn't mean there is no joy on the path. It just means the joy of the destination is great enough to make you accept suffering to get there. So let's notice the painful path and the happy destination in each verse.
Glory through the Cross
Verse 23: "Jesus answered them, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.'" The obvious thing in this verse is that Jesus, the Son of Man, was soon to experience great glory. He would be restored to the glory that he had with the Father before the world was (John 17:5). What's not as obvious is the pathway to that glory implied in the words, "The hour has come." What hour? The closest answer is found in verse 27: "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour." The hour is the hour of his suffering and death. That's why he came. And that is why his soul is troubled. He is about to die on the way to glory. Jesus' path to glory was through suffering and death.
Fruit-Bearing through Death
Verse 24: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." Coming right after the death-followed-by-glory sequence in verse 23, this looks like Jesus' interpretation of his death. When he dies, it is like a seed that seems to disappear in the ground and die, but in reality is preparing to bear fruit. And inside that fruit are more seeds that when they die bear more fruit and so on and on.
In view of the next verse, it's very likely that Jesus is not thinking of himself alone in verse 24, but of his disciples as well. He must die to bear fruit in many saved sinners. And we must experience a kind of death to bear fruit—to see people saved and changed and become life-giving. So the destination in verse 24 is fruit-bearing and the pathway there is painful—a kind of death.
Saving through Losing
Verse 25: "Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." Here the destination is eternal life. And you can miss it by loving your life—that is, by making your goal in life to be safe and secure and comfortable and surrounded only by pleasant things. That is the pathway to perishing.
Or, Jesus says, you can take another path and arrive at eternal life. That path is called hating your life in this world. Notice that he adds "in this world." Jesus knows that what he is really telling us is how to save our lives, not destroy them. But the path to saving them is losing them. But not ultimately losing it—only losing it "in this world." Hating your life in this world means that you will choose to do things that look foolish to the world. You will deny yourself things, and take risks, and embrace the path of suffering for the sake of love. This, Jesus says, will lead to eternal life, not death. So you are not hating your life ultimately, only "in this world." So the destination in verse 25 is eternal life and the pathway there is painful—hating your life in this world.
Honor through Service
Verse 26: "If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him." Here Jesus says that serving him involves following him—namely, on the Calvary road to the cross. There is no spectator service. Serving him involves following where he goes and being where he is—on the cross and then in heaven. If we serve him like this, Jesus says, the Father will honor us. So the destination in verse 26 is being where Jesus is with God's commendation. Or to put it another way, the destination is God-honored fellowship with Jesus. God-commended closeness to Jesus. That's the destination. And the pathway to get there is serving Jesus, that is, following him where he goes, namely to the cross and then to heaven.
So now let's line up the four destinations and the four pathways and see how they relate to each other. In verse 23, the destination is Jesus' glorification, and by implication ours, since we are to follow him and be with him where he is. In verse 24, it is fruit-bearing, others coming to love our Savior and share our joy in him. In verse 25, it is eternal life. And in verse 26, it is God-honored closeness to Jesus. So in summary the destination is glorious, God-honored closeness to Jesus, forever, with others who are there because of our lives.
And the pathway to this destination is, first, in verse 23, the suffering and death of Jesus. Verse 24: being like a seed that falls into the ground and dies. Verse 25: hating your life in this world. And verse 26: serving Jesus by following on the Calvary road to where he is in heaven. In sum, the pathway to the destination is a daily following Jesus by dying to self.
Close to Jesus, Forever, Together
Now let me relate this to Treasuring Christ Together. Think of Treasuring Christ Together now not as multiplying campuses, planting churches, and a global diaconate, but think of it as the act of the heart: treasuring, valuing, cherishing Jesus with other people who are doing the same. That, I think, is what the destination in these verses is. What's happening most deeply in this closeness to Jesus (being where he is) is that he is being treasured. And he is being treasured with others who are doing the same. That's what bearing fruit means. Treasuring Christ Together is our final and ultimate destination. That is what we will be doing forever. And we will not do it alone. We will do it together. The seed that falls into the ground and dies bears much fruit. O Lord, let our lives count to increase the number of people who treasure you!
This is the answer to our question: What will sustain the sacrifices and struggles and deaths we must die in order to multiply campuses, plant churches, and serve the poorest of the poor? Answer: The glorious, God-honored closeness to Jesus, forever, with others who are there because of our lives. That is, treasuring Christ together. This destination, this hope, will keep us going, keep us sacrificing to leave friends, and leave familiar places, and take new jobs, and give lavishly to the vision. The self-denial that Treasuring Christ Together on earth requires is sustained by the hope of treasuring Christ together in heaven.
The Sustaining Power: Jesus Died for Us
But there is one more most crucial thing to say about what sustains us in the path of sacrifice and self-denial. Namely this, and I end with it: Jesus took this path of suffering and death to this destination of glory so that he might become not only our example in dying, but, more importantly, our substitute in dying. Jesus suffered and died to give us both pattern and, more importantly, pardon. And the pardon precedes and enables the pattern. We cannot follow the pattern of Jesus' suffering without being freed from God's wrath and our guilt and fear and selfishness. And we are freed from these not by his pattern, but by his pardon. Not by his being our example, but by his being our substitute.
When Jesus died, he didn't just die before us—to copy—but for us—to trust in. The Good Shepherd laid down his life for the sheep—in their place (John 10:11, 15). There must be salvation by Jesus before there can be imitation of Jesus. There must be justification on the basis of Jesus' death, before there can be sanctification by means of Jesus' power.
When all is said and done, this is the sustaining power of Treasuring Christ Together. In all our strategizing, let us never stray from this. Our hope, our strength is this: Jesus died for us.


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Participation in Education: Mature age people in education and training
For the most part, formal education and training courses aim to equip people with both general and specific knowledge and skills that are likely, ultimately, to be of use in the job market and to enable them to get the type of job they would like. However, some people take education or training courses purely out of personal interest. These can be of a formal nature (e.g. short courses or selected units of courses at educational institutions) or informal (e.g. courses on recreation, personal development, hobbies, crafts, etc.). This article describes participation in work-related training (including formal training courses and on-the-job training) and all formal education (regardless of why it was undertaken), but excludes informal hobby type courses.
Education participation increasing among mature age people Although in the minority, older students make up a substantial and growing proportion of all students. In 1999, students aged between 35 and 64 years accounted for 18% of all students, up from 15% in 1989. Even though education participation rates decline dramatically with age, particularly after people reach their early to mid twenties, participation in education is increasing among mature age people. Between 1989 and 1999, education participation rates for people aged 35-64 years increased from 4% to 5% for men and from 6% to 7% for women. With the exception of women aged 55-64 years, education participation rates increased for both men and women in all age groups 35 years and over. In common with younger age groups, the increases among mature age people were greater for women than for men (again with the exception of women aged 55-64 years).
Most older students study part-time The competing demands of work and family commitments limit the amount of time and energy available for study. These factors not only contribute to lower education participation rates as people get older, but also mean that the vast majority of older students choose to study part-time. In 1999, 83% of older students were studying part-time compared to 45% of those aged 15-34 years. The proportions of older students studying part-time increased from around 80% of those aged 35-44 years to more than 90% of those aged 45-64 years.
Qualifications and field of study Older students are less likely to study for a recognised qualification than younger students, and more likely to undertake a short certificate course of less than one semester, or selected units of an award course (without the intention of gaining a formal qualification). In 1999, 76% of students aged 35-64 years were studying for a recognised qualification, compared to 94% of students aged 15-34 years. Among older students, men were more likely to be studying for a recognised qualification than women (82% compared to 73%). Of those students who were studying for a recognised post school qualification in 1999, older students were more likely than younger students to be studying for a postgraduate qualification, an undergraduate or associate diploma, or a basic vocational qualification, but less likely to be studying for a bachelor degree or a skilled vocational qualification. The most popular broad fields of study among older students in 1999 were: society and culture (undertaken by 30% of older students); and business and administration (28%). Older students were more likely than younger students to be studying for a qualification in the fields of society and culture, business and administration, education, and health but less likely to be studying for a qualification in engineering, architecture and building, or the natural and physical sciences.
Work-related training Mature age people are much more likely to undertake a work-related training course than a course of formal education. The 1997 Survey of Education and Training found that 45% of 35-44 year olds (who were asked - see 'Participation in training' box on this page) had taken one or more training courses in the previous 12 months in order to obtain, maintain or improve work-related skills. However, the proportion declined with age within the 35-64 years group, as did the average number of courses taken. This general pattern was also evident among those who had been employed in a wage or salary job in the previous 12 months. While 35-44 year olds were more likely than any other age group to have taken an in-house or external training course, or to have received employer support (such as payment for fees or paid study leave) for external training, the proportions declined with age among 35-64 year olds, as did the proportion who received on-the-job training. For each course completed in the past 12 months, people were asked for specific information about why they had taken each course. For each course taken while employed, people were asked whether or not the course had been taken in order to improve chances of promotion and whether or not it had been taken for retraining. Each course may have been taken for one, both or neither of these reasons. Promotion was reported as a reason for only 7% of courses taken by 35-64 year olds while employed, compared to 12% of courses taken by younger people. Around 40% of all courses taken by 35-64 year olds while employed were for retraining, compared to 47% for those aged under 35 years. Similarly, for each course taken while not employed, people were asked whether or not it had been taken in order to help find a job. In common with 15-24 year olds, almost 90% of all courses taken by 45-54 year olds, while not employed, were to help get a job. For each course taken while unemployed or marginally attached to the labour force, people who had previously had a job were also asked whether or not the course was for the purpose of retraining. Around 70% of such courses taken by 45-64 year olds were for retraining, about the same as for 15-24 year olds.
Reasons for not studying or taking training courses The reason most commonly reported by 35-64 year olds for either not studying or not training was that there was no need. This reason was reported by 54% of those who had not taken a training course, and 46% of those who had not studied, in the previous 12 months. The proportion who said that they had no need for study or training increased with age (within the 35-64 years age group), as did the proportion who said they that lacked interest or motivation. On the other hand, barriers such as lack of time, work, and family commitments, appear to become less important with age (within the 35-64 years age group), as do financial considerations. Overall, reasons such as lack of time; too much work; problems with scheduling work and study or training; caring for family members; or children too young, were reported by 31% of 35-64 year olds who had not studied and 20% of those who had not taken a training course in the previous 12 months.


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"The journey should be fun, but if you haven't learned anything along the way, you've not yet reached your final destination."
If you can find Kim Kardashian quotes online, then certainly I should be allowed to try my hand at it!
There is a point to that quote however, apart from just trying something new. Our journey abroad has been a wonderful and wild ride. I have had a blast blogging about it and I appreciate all of my readers for tuning in. But more importantly, I've learned a thing or two over the past year. As it relates to blogging specifically, I've learned a lot. When I look back at my older posts and blogging habits I cringe. I used to spend ages loading photos, and have just recently learned a shortcut that saves me hours. I moved from Blogger to WordPress, which I would equate to a jump from junior high directly to college (my MBA is awaiting the day I can build my own website). I have learned that Top Ten lists and featured images of scantily clad women get you the most page-views. I used to write posts that seemed to go on for days (and you thought I wrote a lot now), but recently I am attempting to keep each post specific to one topic (as opposed to combining multiple cities and multiple food related stories all into one post).


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WILMINGTON, Del. — A state senator and her partner have become the first same-sex couple to be legally wed in Delaware.
Sen. Karen Peterson and her longtime partner, Vikki Bandy, both 63, exchanged vows Monday morning, converting their civil union to marriage in a brief ceremony attended by about 35 friends and supporters.
Peterson came out as gay on May 7 while giving an impassioned speech on the Senate floor moments before the chamber voted to legalize same-sex marriage.
She said she has been in a committed relationship with Bandy for 24 years; the speech marked the first time that Peterson has publicly disclosed that she in in a long-term relationship with another woman.
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Following Monday's ceremony, other same-sex couples lined up to get their marriage licenses on the day Delaware's new gay marriage law took effect.
Delaware in May became the 11th state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage when Democratic Gov. Jack Markell signed a gay marriage bill into law just minutes after its passage in the legislature.
The same-sex marriage bill was introduced in the Democrat-controlled legislature barely a year after the state began recognizing same-sex civil unions.


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It's Bill Clinton Day in Charlotte, N.C., and Clinton loyalist Rahm Emanuel kicked off the festival at Wednesday's Politico Playbook Breakfast by predicting what the 42nd president will say during his much-touted speech at the Democratic National Convention.
"First of all," said Chicago Mayor Emanuel, a rare politician who served as a top staffer in both the Clinton and Obama White House, "he'll still be writing backstage. I don't know how many times, even on the way down Pennsylvania Avenue [to the State of the Union address in the Capitol], he'd still be writing side-notes, sharpening rhetoric and the main arguments."
Emanuel continued: "I know he wants to say, 'Both President Obama and I faced fierce opposition.' Remember, Bill Clinton passed his first budget in 1993 without a single Republican vote. 'And against fierce opposition, we tried to do the same things—which is invest in the key areas of education, research and devolpment, health care, that pay huge dividends for the country—and also modernizing and reinventing government. And against that opposition, we made great benefits for the country as a whole and middle-class families in particular.'"
The 52-year-old Emanuel—who transitioned from political aide to investment banker (making $16.2 million in a couple of years) to congressman from Chicago to aide again as Obama's first chief of staff—added that Clinton "will draw parallels between the similarities of their policies and the politics that they faced. Now everyone remembers, oh, this hazy period of time in the '90s when we had bipartisanship. I was 6'2" and weighed 250 pounds then. I lost a lot of weight."
(Actually, he was joking. Emanuel, a former ballet dancer, has always had the physique of a human razor blade, and he described a strict diet and manic daily workout routine that involves swimming, jogging, bike riding, and yoga. "Don't do this," he advised the audience.)
"I don't remember the bipartisanship that everybody remembers," says Emanuel, who is stepping down from his role as honorary co-chair of the Obama campaign so he can help reel in money for the pro-Obama superPAC. "I remember fierce opposition to President Clinton and his agenda. They wanted to shut the government down—not 'wanted to,' they did. There was fierce debate about the role that government could play. They now claim bipartisanship on welfare, but Clinton vetoed two of their bills before he agreed to their concessions. They voted against [the military operation in] Kosovo when the troops were in the air."
And so on and so forth.
Under questioning from Politico editor in chief John Harris and Playbook impresario Mike Allen, the mayor also took the opportunity to bash Mitt Romney and heap praise on Obama's decision to bail out the auto industry with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars—a move he claimed saved or created 1.2 million jobs, and steeply lowered unemployment in the battleground state of Ohio.
"There was nobody that thought this had a better than one in four chance of success," Emanuel said. "The president said, 'All in.'… Mitt Romney [said] let it go bankrupt."
On a less substantive subject, Emanuel said the testimony of candidates' spouses—Ann Romney's convention speech in Tampa and Michelle Obama's in Charlotte—is an important factor in how people decide who to vote for.
"Part of this is character," he said. "We're all products of our experience. It shapes our judgments and who we are. [The spouse] has the best insight into that person. People want to know that. It is the president of the United States."
When Harris mentioned Ann Romney's anecdote about how, in the early days of their marriage, she and Mitt lived on pasta and tuna sandwiches, Emanuel chimed in: "Bluefin tuna." With a grin he added, "That was not nice."
Not that he was trying to be nice.


text: Computability in Europe 2008: Logic and Theory of Algorithms University of Athens, June 15-20 2008 http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/ PAPER SUBMISSION is now OPEN: http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/submission.php SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 4th, 2008 CiE 2008 is the fourth in a series of conferences organised by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European network of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings took place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006) and Siena (2007). CiE 2008 aims at bridging the gap from the logical methods of mathematical and meta-mathematical flavour to the applied and industrial questions that are involved in devising and choosing the right algorithms and analysing their effectiveness and efficiency. TUTORIALS will be given by: John V. Tucker (Swansea) Moshe Y. Vardi (Houston, TX) PLENARY SPEAKERS will include: Keith Devlin (Stanford, CA) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) Antonina Kolokolova (Vancouver, BC) Janos Makowsky (Haifa) Dag Normann (Oslo) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal, QC) Christos Papadimitriou (Berkeley, CA) Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht) & Jiri Wiedermann (Prague) See http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/invited.php for more informations on Plenary Speakers. SPECIAL SESSIONS Algorithms in the history of mathematics (organized by J. Hoyrup, Roskilde, and K. Chemla, Paris) Formalising mathematics and extracting algorithms from proofs (organized by H. Barendregt, Nijmegen, and M. Seisenberger, Swansea) Higher type recursion theory and applications (organized by U. Berger, Swansea, and D. Normann, Oslo) Algorithmic game theory (organized by E. Koutsoupias, Athens, and B. von Stengel, London) Quantum algorithms and complexity (organized by V. Kendon, Leeds, and B. Coecke, Oxford) Biology and computation (organized by N. Jonoska, Tampa FL, and G. Mauri, Milano) See http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/special.php for more informations on special sessions. CiE 2008 conference topics include, but not exclusively * Admissible sets * Analog computation * Artificial intelligence * Automata theory * Classical computability and degree structures * Complexity classes * Computability theoretic aspects of programs * Computable analysis and real computation * Computable structures and models * Computational and proof complexity * Computational learning and complexity * Concurrency and distributed computation * Constructive mathematics * Cryptographic complexity * Decidability of theories * Derandomization * DNA computing * Domain theory and computability * Dynamical systems and computational models * Effective descriptive set theory * Finite model theory * Formal aspects of program analysis * Formal methods * Foundations of computer science * Games * Generalized recursion theory * History of computation * Hybrid systems * Higher type computability * Hypercomputational models * Infinite time Turing machines * Kolmogorov complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * L-systems and membrane computation * Mathematical models of emergence * Molecular computation * Neural nets and connectionist models * Philosophy of science and computation * Physics and computability * Probabilistic systems * Process algebra * Programming language semantics * Proof mining * Proof theory and computability * Quantum computing and complexity * Randomness * Reducibilities and relative computation * Relativistic computation * Reverse mathematics * Swarm intelligence * Type systems and type theory * Uncertain reasoning * Weak systems of arithmetic and applications Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of: L. Aiello (Roma) T. Altenkirch (Nottingham) K. Ambos-Spies (Heidelberg) G. Ausiello (Roma) A. Beckmann (Swansea, co-chair) L. Beklemishev (Moscow) P. Bonizzoni (Milano) S. A. Cook (Toronto ON) B. Cooper (Leeds) C. Dimitracopoulos (Athens, co-chair) R. Downey (Wellington) E. Koutsoupias (Athens) O. Kupferman (Jerusalem) S. Laplante (Orsay) H. Leitgeb (Bristol) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) E. Mayordomo Camara (Zaragoza) F. Montagna (Siena) M. Mytilinaios (Athens) (+) M. Nielsen (Aarhus) I. Oitavem (Lisboa) C. Palamidessi (Palaiseau) T. Pheidas (Heraklion) Ramanujam (Chennai) A. Schalk (Manchester) U. Schoening (Ulm) H. Schwichtenberg (Muenchen) A. Selman (Buffalo NY) A. Sorbi (Siena) I. Soskov (Sofia) C. Timpson (Leeds) S. Zachos (New York NY) We cordially invite all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF- format, max 10 pages) for presentation at CiE 2008. We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community. The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer-Verlag. There will also be journal special issues, collecting invited contributions related to the conference. Special issues will be published in the journals "Theory of Computing Systems", the "Archive for Mathematical Logic", and the "Journal of Algorithms". See http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/publications.php for more informations on publications.


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Matrix Amplification Unveils GT1500FXBD 3-channel Rackmount Power Amp
United Kingdom (November 16, 2012) – Matrix Amplification has introduced the GT1500FXBD, the first of two 3-channel amplifiers designed with the help of French amp-guru Bruno Durand. The GT1500FXBD
United Kingdom (November 16, 2012) – Matrix Amplification has introduced the GT1500FXBD, the first of two 3-channel amplifiers designed with the help of French amp-guru Bruno Durand. The GT1500FXBD delivers 500W per channel at 4 ohms with the same voicing as the flagship GT1000FX amplifiers, weighing only 3.8kg and all in a 19" 1U format.
Multi-channel guitar power amplifiers have been requested for a number of years but in the past have been too heavy, bulky and expensive to build because of the added tubes and transformers needed. This drives up the weight, form factor and cost. Multi-channel solid state amplifiers are commonplace now, this technology coupled with Andy Hunt's innovations in solid state technology means that with the advent of modern modelling pre-amps with their flexibility in routing options the GT1500 can give guitarists the ultimate in flexibility and sound in a lightweight yet powerful amplifier.
The obvious use for a 3 channel amp is when you want to run 3 cabs in a wet/dry/wet setup. This is basically a signal split to 3 cabs with the middle cab dry (with no effects) and the other 2 cabs fed with stereo effects. This gives the clarity of the dry signal and the ability to dial in the effects to taste providing what most guitarists feel is a huge sound that isn't mushy. Professional players have been using this type of setup for many years but it has always been out of reach of a lot of players due to the weight of extra amps and extra cabs not to mention the expense of extra gear.
Having 3 channels also gives you the ability to run a stereo rig as normal for yourself and an extra channel for monitoring, either for yourself or another member of the band. Or how about setting up a 2.1 type rig with a sub and 2 satellite speakers? Multi-instrumentalists or players wanting to take advantage of multi-preamp sources can be catered for. Even the guy in the band that just plays on the one song can use a channel without having to fetch along another car load of gear.
To sum it up the Matrix 1500FXBD will fit just about any playing situation you may need from your rig, like the ultimate power amplifier for guitarists. It will open new possibilities, uncovered by the classic stereo power amps. All in an amplifier with three 500w channels, weighing 3.8kg and a 1U form factor.... powering your rig has never been so easy.
The Matrix GT1500FXBD is available now at £890 inclusive of VAT in the UK, or $1150 within the USA.
Technical Specifications
Number of channels: 3
Watts per channel rms @ 4 ohms- 500
Watts per channel rms @ 8 ohms- 325
Watts per channel rms @ 16 ohms- 150
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Input sensitivity: 0.775V
Frequency Response: (+/-3db ref 1kHz) 8hz-24kHz
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Picturesque Views in England and Wales. Photograph by Elizabeth K. Helsinger from a copy in the Joseph Regenstein Library, the University of Chicago. [Click on image to enlarge it.] [Plate 14 in Helsinger's Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder.]
. Drawn by J. M. W. Turner. 1838. Engraving. FromRuskin's comments on this work
To him [Turner], as to the Greek, the storm-clouds seemed messengers of fate. He feared them, while he reverenced; nor does he ever introduce them without some hidden purpose, bearing upon the expression of the scene he is painting. On that plain of Salisbury, he had been struck first by its widely-spacious pastoral life; and secondly, by its monuments of the two great religions of England— Druidical and Christian.
He was not a man to miss the possible connection of these impressions. He treats the shepherd life as a type of the ecclesiastical; and composes his two drawings so as to illustrate both.
In the drawing of Salisbury, the plain is swept by rapid but not distressful rain. The cathedral occupies the centre of the picture, towering high over the city, of which the houses (made on purpose smaller than they really are) are scattered about it like a flock of sheep. The cathedral is surrounded by a great light. The storm gives way at first in a subdued gleam over a distant parish church, then bursts down again, breaks away into full light about the cathedral, and passes over the city, in various sun and shade. In the foreground stands a shepherd leaning on his staff, watching his flock;—bareheaded: he has given his cloak to a group of children, who have covered themselves up with it, and are shrinking from the rain; his dog crouches under a bank; his sheep, for the most part, are resting quietly, some coming up the slope of the bank towards him.
The rain-clouds in this picture are wrought with a care which I have never seen equalled in any other sky of the same kind. It is the rain of blessing—abundant, but full of brightness; golden gleams are flying across the wet grass, and fall softly on the lines of willows in the valley—willows by the watercourses; the little brooks flash out here and there between them and the fields. (Modern Painters V, Library Edition: 7.189-90)
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Grammy crasher jailed for Adele stunt
LOS ANGELES - A man who attempted to upstage Adele at Sunday's Grammy Awards faces a possible trespassing charge for his latest awkward celebrity interaction.
Vitalli Sediuk spoke briefly before Adele took the stage and received the telecast's first Grammy Award. He was shooed away by presenter Jennifer Lopez and video of the ceremony shows him walking off the stage while Adele delivered her acceptance speech, crediting Lopez as a "good luck charm.''
Jail records show Sediuk spent the next several hours in custody and was ordered to appear for a March 4 court date. He told Hollywood Reporter, which first reported his arrest, that he did not have a ticket to the show and took musician Adam Levine's seat before going on stage.
Sediuk's intrusion came after Los Angeles police increased security at the Grammys due to an ongoing manhunt for a rogue ex-officer targeting police and their families.
Police said they had no details on Sediuk's arrest, other than it was made by private security at the show.
Publicists for the Grammy Awards did not return e-mails Tuesday seeking comment on the incident.
Sediuk, 24, has gained notoriety for other stunts involving celebrities. Will Smith slapped the 24-year-old last year after attempting to kiss him on the red carpet of the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III.'' Madonna received a bouquet of hydrangeas from Sediuk at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and promptly stashed them under a table, declaring, "I absolutely loathe hydrangeas.''
Sediuk was not immediately available for an interview Tuesday.
"I'm not a crazy guy,'' Sediuk told the magazine. "I just think differently.''
He was working for the Ukrainian television channel 1+1 when he was slapped by Smith in May, and told Hollywood Reporter that his station wasn't credentialed for Sunday's show. He claims he followed Katy Perry into the show and that security never asked him for a ticket.
He said he didn't plan on going onstage, but went up after hearing Adele's name after she won the award for Best Pop Solo Performance. He was pulled away from the microphone by Lopez, who appeared unfazed and Adele delivered her acceptance speech without further incident. AP